From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:25:36 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87bo2tfb06.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <6a370ecf-5ddc-4e5b-8553-189949a495fe@googlegroups.com> <7557ed60-66e4-4ab2-9cd6-9b1b2d934ae1@googlegroups.com> <874n8mgph4.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381678213 1740 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2013 15:30:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 15:30:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 13 17:30:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VVNcY-00065M-Qq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:30:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVNcY-00059q-Ce for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 11:30:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:tHgE+KAQHnJW5KBOenNkN9Ygxak= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201722 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93990 Archived-At: Kai Großjohann writes: >> "A complete rewrite..." Wouldn't that be a total >> disaster? Why would you do that? Because of hardware >> changes? Portability? Please explain :) > > If the programmers don't know how to write > maintainable code and don't know how to refactor, then > the code gets worse and worse and at one point needs > to be rewritten. I heard that's not so uncommon for > commercial software projects. FOSS code is in general better than commercial code. Not by much, but it has been affirmed. Also, Emacs is written in C with Lisp on top of it. It seems like a solid architecture. Also, lots of people say C++, and not C, is the modular, reusable, etc., etc., programming language. But that's no my experience. But, all that techno-techno-science amount to close to zero in incapable hands. But in this case, didn't RMS even wrote the C compiler? He is the only guy I know (by name), but I think there was a, ehm, "herd" of very dedicated (fanatical perhaps) programmers. If Emacs will run into a dead-end and had to be rewritten because of poor software I will be chocked! -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573